Worldwise week

Worldwise week is about sharing each others passion. A lot of teachers come from different kind of countries: India, Kenia, Indonesia etc. I have two lovely women who are from Indonesia. They shared their passion about teaching. However, for them it is completely different because they do not have the materials we have and they do not have enough classrooms for their students. The solution for them is to teach a class that consists out of 50 - 60 pupils. Which is a lot of course. She told me, Sri, that her pupils are demotivated and she wants to motivate them. We told her that she can use some English games or that she has to take into account their frame of references. We had two workshops today and one was about the passion and the other one was about similarities and differences between Indonesia and Holland! It was informative. We discussed about it and we decided that Holland inhabitants are spoiled. Not all of them though but the most of them are. I am spoiled as well. Later on the day we were formed in groups. We had to come up with a solution or an idea for Sri's problem: learners have a lack of motivation. We decided that it was fun to create a language villages over there and we come up with a lovely idea: we are going to put ourselves on camara and we tell that it is important to learn English. We give this film to Sri and she can show it to her pupils. We will give our e-mail addresses, because we want to motivate them to sign up and to talk with us in English of course, because we can't speak their language. Tomorrow we will have another workshop and we will work on our presentation for Friday. We need to presentate what we have learned and what we come up with for a solution to Sri's problem. Friday we need to prepare a Dutch breakfast for the quests. It is funny though, because Sri and Amy told us that they eat rise three times a day. They do not eat bread or eggs or potatoes etc. Friday in the evening the quests will leave to their country again, I suppose. I am not sure though. After Friday the normal school week starts again and then we need to work hard again and after that week we will have tests and we need to hand in portfolios.

Wish me goodluck!